PEDRO DE VALDIVIA (5272749), Spain, 4792gt, completed Cartagena 7-1957.
1964 CABO SANTA MARTA (Spain), 1979 CEFALLONIAN WAVE (?), 1979 MINOTAURUS (Greece),
BU Gadani Beach 21.4.84

Middlesbrough Dock - 22 July 1961: Just shows how easy it is to be confused, many years later, by whatever one had written down at the time. My original detailed record entry, extracting details from the then current Lloyd's Register, renders the name correctly as PEDRO DE VALDIVIA, yet my original notebook written down either as I was viewing the ship, or shortly afterwards (some of my first notebook entries were copied over somewhat later than the actual event from a smaller notepad!) rendered her as .. VALDIVA, both in my list of sightings and separate listing of photographs at the back of the book.
When I first found the contact print I scanned it under the name I had written on the back of DIAZ DE SOLIS. Understandable to some extent as they were exact sisterships. Now I look back in my records the DIAZ DE SOLIS was seen in Middlesbrough Dock on 15 July 1961, the PEDRO being seen, as stated above, a week later on the 22nd. As far as I know these were one-off visits by these two ships.
I can definitely say for this shot that I could not get in the whole ship without walking on water!!!

Ron

The same date in my diary, Ron, unfortunately no camera in my hands!